Did you know you can track Elons jet from Mastodon?

In unrelated news, the graphics for the Switch 2 are fucking incredible - look at this shit! This is wild!
- yes a radar tracking guided missile. lock on to musks jet with AA-missile.
- NGL I would love to see Nintendo give Luigi Mario a rocket launcher.
- haha yeah

The only reason I give the slightest slightly green toilet-bowl-staining shit about this is because it upsets him and he deserves to be upset

But can you shoot it down?
- You won't need to if he keeps cutting the FAA and other agencies
- hmmm new game idea
- Yes, just not through mastodon.
- Just trick him into saying Crude oil is bad

Wasn't it part of why he acquired Twitter to shut down the account? The account later moved to Mastodon.
- Nah, he just purchased the world's biggest megaphone from which he could propel his ketamine fuelled opinions into the deep uncaring void of the internet.
- I remember him getting really mad about his plane being tracked. Didn't know it was on Twitter.
  
  It was. Think he banned the account for "doxxing"

Now do it for the other Billionairs.
- The creator also made one for Taylor Swift and a few others
  
  Tim Cook, Larry Ellison, a plane owned by Google, and a few megachurch guys among others, if I recall correctly
- Air traffic information is already publicly available. The author of the bot simply scrapes data for Elon's Jet. You can use websites like FlightAware, Flightradar24, and PlaneLogger that provide real-time tracking of flights, including private jets. You can also search for specific aircraft or view flights in a particular area. I remember shortly after Elon bought Twitter he got the account suspended.
  
  and worth noting that by “publicly available” here, it’s not like it’s published on some FAA API: ADS-B is broadcast from all aircraft, and anyone can receive its data… these services run by networks for regular members of the public contributing the data from their ADS-B receivers
  
  Except the commercial aggregators have all started filtering the data of specific planes on request - you won't find Elon's or Swift's ADSB data on popular sites/apps like FlightAware or Flightradar24. (I'm not familiar with PlaneLogger). Open source aggregators like OpenSky or ADSB Exchange will have them though, but the UIs of those sites are far less polished and have fewer features.
- like a global map with filters by business sector, flight reason, etc
  man this would be sick hehe

The FAA is changing the rule which makes this information public. The FAA is fully controlled by the rich.
- ADS-B is public broadcast though… if you’re in range of the plane, you can pick up its air traffic control data (elevation, speed, heading, registration, etc)… services like flight radar 24 don’t work on FAA data: they are a huge network of regular people across the globe with ADS-B receivers contributing everything they see
  
  I think the above user was referring to this: https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-moves-protect-aircraft-owners-private-information
  They are no longer making the information public which aircraft belongs to whom, so in the future you might no longer know that any given aircraft belongs to Elon Musk or any other celebrity. You can still track it, but you won't know what aircraft to track.
- The rules will really change when the first billionaire on a private jet gets taken out by a DIY suicide drone.
- I thought they just slightly obfuscated it, but bc the importance of tail numbers for safety, they can't do so completely. I'd love a complete explanation from someone knowledgeable.
  
  Just months until they apply the Steve Jobs rule to tail numbers.
  Lease a new private jet every 3 months and you don't need plates, or tail numbers.

adding so it’s archived in as many places as possible:
the reg is N628TS, and you can track it with any ADS-B service
ADS-B is broadcast from the plane, and able to be picked up by any in-range receiver… services like flight radar 24 aggregate many receivers across the world run by ordinary people

Everyone should track him and post to Tiktok just for ss n giggles
- You can swear on the internet.
- Just say shit. You are on the internet. You can say shit, piss, fuck, asshole, and even „Du kleiner hurensohn ich ficke deine mutter”.

- Player 2!

Hell yeah, the fediverse rocks!
- The best part is that if any of them get taken down, another one will pop up on another instance :D

how to link planes to billionaires in europe? any ideas?

Don't worry. They're working in it:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/good-news-for-billionaires-faa-to-let-them-block-tracking-of-their-private
- Some hero needs to be at the right airport before they manage it
  
  Yes, those airports need throngs of people to defend those billionaires before they can slither away to safety. So many protectors.
- To be honest I can't think of non evil people that ride private jets. If somebody wanted to do violence against billionaires they could probably take down any corporate sized jet.
  
  Okay, I'm aware of the irony of what I'm about to say, but please hear me out before getting out the torches and pitchforks. I couldn't think of an ethical use for private jets, so I asked ChatGPT (Yes, the coal-powered theft engine). It gave the following (unedited):
  That's a great and nuanced question. While private jets are often criticized — and rightly so — for their environmental impact and association with luxury excess, there are some contexts where their use can be argued to be ethically justifiable, especially when alternatives are limited or time-sensitive. Here are a few examples:
  1. Medical Emergencies & Humanitarian Aid
  Air ambulances are essentially private jets equipped for rapid medical response. They save lives in time-critical emergencies, transporting organs for transplant or patients who can't fly commercially.
  In disaster zones, private aviation can be used to bring in aid, doctors, or evacuate people when commercial options are unavailable or too slow.
  2. Remote Access for Critical Work
  Some humanitarian workers, scientists, or engineers travel to remote areas with no viable commercial flights. In such cases, private aircraft may be the only way to access those locations efficiently and safely.
  This applies to environmental researchers, doctors serving indigenous communities, or people inspecting infrastructure in inaccessible regions.
  3. Time-Critical Leadership Roles
  In rare cases, heads of state, negotiators, or executives overseeing urgent crisis response may use private jets if the time saved could mean large-scale impact (e.g., preventing war escalation, saving a company that employs thousands).
  4. Cargo Over Passenger Transport
  Private aircraft aren't always carrying people — they can also be used for urgent supply deliveries, such as vaccines, scientific samples, or critical parts needed to fix failing infrastructure.
  Important Caveat
  Even in these ethically defensible uses, there's room for scrutiny. The key ethical tension lies in necessity vs. convenience — is the jet being used because there's truly no better option, or just to avoid discomfort?
  If you're thinking of a specific situation, I can help analyze whether it might be ethically justifiable too.
  I hate to admit it, but I think it's correct. The existence of private jets isn't the problem, they're just overabundant because they're not taxed adequately. Having said that, I believe you're right in that, if a small passenger jet were to crash, it's more likely to make the world a better place than a worse place.

@elonjet@mastodon.social for those who wish to subscribe.

Ok, but does anyone here own a MANPADS?
- Ukraine is working on anti air drones...
- Came here to ask the same question, any SAM would do really :)
  
  i wonder what would happen if someone was to point a laser at coincidently same direction as where the plane is

i figured that some did it when elon banned that account on twitter i never got around to looking for it

Why would I want to track his jet though?
- Because it pisses him off
- Probably in the hopes of seeing it blip out of existence somewhere over the Atlantic.
- gives him anxiety, the same shit he causes on millions world wide by funding extreme right wing movements

I just follow exposés by his baby momma's, it's not as up-to-date but it's good enough for me

Yes; I thought there had been enough news stories about this that this was common knowledge?

Wow, imagine being so out of touch you defend a billionaire
- Where's the defending?

I wanna bet all the CO2 emissions he emits are as much as if he'd sell gasoline cars instead.

Theoretically mastodon can show up on Lemmy. Soooooo . . .

I don't think I'm seeing the value here. Why would you want to track him?
- Luigi.

In b4 he now tries to come down on Mastodon

- They literally made his private security US Marshalls
- body doubles
  Like Puttie his master

- Sorry that 4 Chan went down but you can still fuck right off from here.
  Maybe Kiwi Farms is accepting new Edge Lords.
- His Hitler salute is probably the least damaging thing he's done ever since he became president.
- You mean the guy who called the cave diver a pedo before all this?
  And who brought "freedom" to twitter?
  And now he's running enforcement on trumps plan to turn the us into a dictatorship.
  I don't wish death on him (I don't think he deserves that) but my not liking him happened before the Nazi solute.
  Even if you took the Nazi solute out, it's fairly clear he's not a good person and that Tesla is possibly just a way for him to get rich and get attention these days. He might have cared originally, but I feel any illusion of caring is gone, and he is basically Trump 2.
  He'd happily remove all workers rights if he was in power, and to get back at his ex wives, possibly eliminate women's rights
- Hahahaha MISCONSTRUED fuck off you nazi apologist bastard. Why don't you tolerate my foot in your ass
- Given the breadth and depth of evidence of him being a horrible person and holding favorable views towards fascism/nazism (see him flirting with every far-right movement), calling it misconstrued is misrepresenting reality. He knows what he did.
  Unlike other commenters, I don't think you're necessarily a Nazi, but you are at least missing crucial information to make a proper judgment here. And, not to group you with them, but when you defend his Nazi salute, you're not in good company.
  I hope you'll reconsider your stance.
  
  That vern unsworth debacle from 2017 was pretty fun to read lol
  Vern tells Elon to shove his submarine up his behind and then Elon calls him a pedo boy. A tit for tat moment, in which the defamation lawsuit was dismissed.
  His daughter is saying one thing and Elon is saying another, so all we have is word of mouth. Naturally, people will believe the daughter because of their disdain for Elon, however, how can one be tricked into consenting to that procedure? Elon takes the L here.
  Elon telling Germany to embrace their past and learn from it? Especially at the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz? Not a good look.
  Elon had said that the awkward gesture he made was not a Nazi salute, that his heart goes out to everyone.
  So.... Everyone is running with the Nazi salute. Do we give him the benefit of the doubt and believe it was his intended gesture? Or do we perceive it as a Nazi salute and condemn him?
  Everyone has chosen the latter. I can see why people can see that with 2 out of the three articles you've provided.
  But there is a lot of irony in these posts that seem to want to fight fascism with fascism.
  For example, people are calling Trump's deportation measures fascist, and in the same breath, wanting to deport Trump supporters instead.
  People calling it fascist for their anti Trump (or fascist) speech to be limited, but deeming Trump supporters having no right to talk.
  But in all seriousness, I just find it all entertaining. The back and forth and the ironic rhetoric of backyard politicians.
  Before you ask me for a source, just peruse Reddit or this platform.
  I do appreciate your rebuttal and providing sources rather than snide comments.
- "all because"? Let's not forget about him destroying the country and robbing all our futures blind. Stop typing and just find the man so you can suck whatever's left of his dick in person, Nazi
- You can't tolerate the intolerant
- I'm not wishing death upon Elon! I love him! Boy is so flammable!

1. Medical Emergencies & Humanitarian Aid

2. Remote Access for Critical Work

3. Time-Critical Leadership Roles

4. Cargo Over Passenger Transport

Important Caveat